A lot of parents get old and think they should have
spent more time with their children before.
Not exact matches
You'll also be so busy taking care of your
children and getting them where they need to go that you may even start to feel disconnected from them, although you're
spending more time with them now than ever
before.
a review of 20 years of research on fatherhood, by Charlie Lewis, Professor of Psychology at Lancaster University and published in June 2001 by Fathers Direct, NFPI and other parenting charities: · Involvement of dads
with children aged 7 - 11 predicts success in exams at 16 · Where dads are involved
before the age of 11,
children are less likely to have a criminal record by the age of 21 · Pre-schoolers who
spend more time playing
with their dads are often
more sociable when they enter nursery school · Nine out of ten dads attend the birth
Alternatively if your partner has
children, it could be the case that they don't want to settle down
with you because they have other responsibilities that they put
before their own relationship, but they enjoy
spending time with you in a
more casual level.
Many mothers remain depressed even after going to work, can't afford enough food,
spend less quality
time with their
children, and rely
more on television to keep their preschoolers occupied than they did
before they went back to work, the research shows.